Wi-Fi, meters & wireless devices

Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of Reassessment of Federal Communications Commission Radiofrequency Exposure Limits and Policies ET Docket No. 13-84 To: Secretary, FCC Comments: Jean Lemieux, President of the Massachusetts Association for the Chemically Injured, Inc. submits comment in the above-captioned proceeding. I, Jean A. Lemieux, am providing comment on behalf of the members of the Massachusetts Association for the Chemically Injured (MACI), a volunteer, non-profit statewide support, education and referral organization for people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity on the proceeding of FCC Docket 13-84. The Massachusetts Association for the Chemical Injured’s comment centers on the issue of EMFs, wireless (RF) technology and potential health effects and harms experienced from the EMF and RF exposure from a general population public health perspective and specifically for vulnerable segments of the population, including those living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity/Intolerance and those who are electrically sensitive (EHS)/EMR-S. My position on the current proceeding focuses on its reassessment of FCC exposure limits and policies that address the following: 1). a complete review of all of the science, inclusive of the biological health effects in the non-ionizing exposure category that has accumulated ii this docket and past one. FCC needs to review for reassessment the vast amount of research and scientific evidence that had been submitted in response to an update of new FCC guidelines and public health policy. 2). MACI’s comment on this proceeding will demonstrate the impact that the FCC’s failure to update guidelines on the current research and scientific evidence inclusive of the non-thermal biological evidence impacts human health. MACI participated in Public Comment to our State Departments of Public Utilities Dockets and the impact of the deficient FCC guidelines was used as a benchmark by the Department in the setting of policy (see MACI Reply Comment to DPU). My comment furnished evidence of real-life experience in related matters before our State Department of Public Utilities Dockets. 3). The unaddressed potential health risks by the FCC failure to update guidelines failed the Federal Agency’s duty to reflect a public health standard and failure to consider vulnerable populations who should be afforded special protection under federal and state laws. Many people who suffer from chemical sensitivities are concomitantly vulnerable to the effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) and radio frequency radiation (RFR). A population survey of Hypersensitivity to Electromagnetic Fields in CA found chemical sensitivity to be an important risk factor for hypersensitivity to EMFs. The combination of sensitivities is quite disabling and puts their ability to work or live in their residences at greater risk. See submitted published research and studies that attest to the issue on prevalence of MCS and EHS, health effects experienced, risk for vulnerable members of public, comment to Docket HHS-OASH-2026-0397, exposure to smart meters - a device covered under the FCC, and the Public Comment to Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. They should be considered part of my comment. The FCC must recognize, acknowledge and take the necessary steps to implement guidelines and rules based on all of the science, not just the “thermal” limits exposure that may have been protective in the 1980’s. The FCC has a duty and the responsibility to review and reassess fully the range of exposure to this environmental pollutant where EMFs and RFR exposure has become ubiquitous to ensure safe exposure for the population, for vulnerable members of the population, and equal access for this vulnerable population in their living environment, their workplace, and access to participate in society in today’s environment. The current research and scientific evidence which has become extensive showing biological health effects, epidemiological evidence through published studies, surveys, and real-life experience should be assessed in the setting of guidelines and policy. The matter of this docket did indicate that a broad range of commenters could participate. I offer this brief introductory comment with the submitted documents. In conclusion, there has been a failure of the FCC to update guidelines for today’s exposures and the current state of the science on EMFS and RFR. A view of impact on the public and especially those most vulnerable to EMF and RF and wireless exposure must be included in the reassessment of FCC radiofrequency exposure limits and policy. This failure on the Federal level has implications for State regulatory agencies who have hid behind and used as a benchmark these FCC guidelines which are insufficient to protect public health and allows for the pressure of Industry to control and set public health policy. There is sound reason why this is an important issue and the Federal Communication Commission should heed this important information and recommendations in the Commissions deliberation and the setting of FCC policy, rules and regulations. Respectfully submitted, Jean A. Lemieux President Massachusetts Association for the Chemically Injured, Inc. P.O. Box 754 Andover, MA 01810 978- 681-5117 macimcs@aol.com There was no box to upload the attachments. The regular form to submit by pdf failed in the Proceedings and didn't allow my filing of comment on this proceeding. Attachments: • AAEM Board of Directors, Statement: “Wireless Smart Meters Case Series”, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, October 23, 2013. • Belpomme, Dominique and Phillippe Irigaray, Electrohypersensitivity as a Newly Identified and Characterized Neurologic Pathological Disorder: How to Diagnose, Treat, and Prevent it”, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020: 21, 1915. • Belpomme, Dominique and Phillippe Irigaray, “Why electrohypersensitivy and related symptoms are caused by non-ionizing man-made electrmagnetis fields: An overview and medical assessment.”, Environmental Research, 212 (2022) 113374. • International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, “Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) Is A Humanitarian Crisis That Requires An Urgent Response”, Issued July 2024: Revised December 2024. • Lamech, Federica, MBBS, “Self-Reporting of Symptom Development From Exposure to Radiofrequency Fields of Wireless Smart meters in Victoria, Australia: A Case Series”, Alternative Ther Health Med. 2014; 20(6): 28-39. • MACI’s statement outlining a section of the Reply Comment from the Massachusetts Association for the Chemically Injured, Inc. to the Department of Public Utilities on D.P.U. 12-76 on two questionnaire surveys on smart meters and health effects (Reference #12 on comment to HHS). • Massachusetts Association for the Chemically Injured, Inc. Comment to the Department of Health and Human Services, Federal Register: Notice of Request for information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. • McCredden, McLean, and Steinemann study titled “Wireless sensitivity and co-morbidities: A prevalence study in Australia, Canada, and the United States.” March 2026. Science Direct, Next Research [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S3050475926002745]

My experiences inclue: a strongheadache (an 8 on a scale of 10) after a new cell tower was built and activiated. Previously, I never had a migrane headache, like other people. I went to Swede. There everone I met were either harmed by electromagnetic radiation or knew people who were! In Sweden, I felt fine for 4 days. I relocated. Four days agai, headache reaapreared. Grrr! This experience repeated again and again......I slept uncomforatbly in the rental car. Rarely I asked a homeowner for a shower. To get food was distant. I slept in a Swedish log cottage with a ground fire in the middle space and layers of deer fir to sleep on. Nice. I had to leave. New guests were arriving. To continue: People harmed by electromagnetic radiation may carry in their bodies a remembered the injury from invisible electromagnetic radiation. My home is similar to a faraday cage. No wifi, no drones, in a no-fly-zone, NRQZ (National Radio Quiet Zone) protected by USA congress in 1956. A person visited, was here 10 minutes. She HAD to leave immediately. She did not allow her body to forget the constant invisible pain (in faraday like cage) in our home. I tried to contact her. No luck. A hospital diagnosed her having "VibroAcousticDisease" (VAD= vibro acoustic sound waves) in her obituary (2025). She had died. I feel sad and very helpless. Harmful places I deteted: creeks and rivers carry frequencies (my reactions were confirmed by a medical doctor / scientist), stil lakes, ponds reflect th sun (I met a few people can only go out during certain nights. The ocean is too moving to reflect a constant-continual frequency. A rock clif reflects radiation emitted from vehicles. Trains (higher frequency as the train approaches: experience, the radiation harms and rightens me. I experienced the ding ding of an approaching train, the gate arms lowered, I braced myself. No train. the dings stopped, no train. Wish, the train very quickly passed.

I reside in Lewis County, Washington. I did not consent, nor do I consent today, to the continuous, involuntary exposure to pulsed modulated, biologically active electrical and radiofrequency / microwave (RF/MW) radiation. The health effects of such have been widely studied by government agencies including from the US Navy in 1972 and by thousands of scientists worldwide. You need only look so far as the International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space which was signed by over 24,000 professionals demanding a response to what can only be called a crisis brought on by lack of proper public policy on wireless technology. Dr Martin Pall, Professor Emeritus from Washington State University, has studied the effects of RF on the body. His work shows that RF radiation causes oxidative stress and leads to the depletion of glutathione which is critical in melatonin production. His overall assessment is that the damages caused by RF radiation are causing a tidal wave of dementia which we are seeing at earlier and earlier ages. I lost my mother, my mother-in-law, my 64 year old sister-in-law, two uncles and now my own husband is in Stage 5 early onset Alzheimers at age 67. This is not genetic. My father died in 2017. He had spent his last few years unable to sleep. My Mom's memory started failing in the early 2010's. I believe both my parents suffered from the installation of a smart meter as neither had a cell phone and they did not have wifi. As a normal consumer and well educated professional, I did not have any clue that the tech I was using in my work and personal life could be harmful. In 2010, the time of the installation of the smart meter on my home in Oregon, I became unable to sleep and became extremely anxious and depressed. These are symptoms caused by exposure to pulsed radiofrequency radiation. I'd get what felt like restless leg syndrome but all over my body. It turns out that response was from an increasing sensitivity to all electronics. The trigger was the new smart meter. At the time, I did not know what was causing my symptoms. I went to my doctor and sought treatment. I'm now on SSDI. I spent two years trying to treat a mental health condition that only existed as the result of the exposure to EMF to which I'd become increasingly sensitive. And the medication could not help an ongoing toxic exposure. It was adding another biological insult to one of the very systems that's electrical in nature and that's damaged by EMF exposure - the nervous system. By 2015, I'd lost the ability to read more than a few paragraphs and I struggled to write my own name. The fatigue was so bad that when I went shopping for groceries, I had to hold onto the cart just to get around the store. At age 46, I had people stop me and ask if I was OK. Any stress resulted in extreme outbursts as EMF exposure symptoms include irritability which isn't surprising because when your body is under constant assault, you are in a high cortisol state. In 2017, we moved to a rural community where I thought I'd be safe. We had no wireless devices. The smart meter was only the kind that could be read once a month by a truck when they drove by taking readings. My health improved. But in 2024, the meters were changed to a constantly pulsing type and my health became absolutely devastated once again. I became unable to leave my home. After a few months, we removed the meter but the damage was done. I'd become so sensitive to all EMF fields, I could no longer tolerate my own home. I moved my old motorhome to my pasture where I measured the lowest fields (RF, AC and magnetic) and I lived out there without running water and with little electricity. After several months, I made the difficult decision to move again which meant packing all of our belongings by myself as my husband could not remember if he was packing or unpacking a box. The process of even looking for another home was so brutal, I had to be helped out of many homes. Because every county surrounding me had moved to smart meters for power, I could not properly evaluate other fields. I finally gambled and settled. Here we pay $35/month for the privilege to not be irradiated by our meter. I still often sleep in the motorhome. My symptoms include burning sensations, screen dermatitis, dizziness, heart palpitations, chronic insomnia, cognitive fog, extreme fatigue, irritability and an inability to concentrate. I have debilitating digestive issues I believe are being caused by over exposure when I do try to live like a normal human being. Everyone including Social Security is now requiring a cell phone for identity verification to access services online. I find it repulsive to have to pay for the technology that's destroying everything I love including me. Technology that is offensive biologically and disabling to a human being should not be a mandatory exposure by design of our infrastructure.

I cannot use computers or laptops because they cause an irritation which after a while becomes intolerable with, in some cases, physiological effects, such as difficulty breathing and chest discomfort. This seriously limits my employability. Also I can only use a smartphone in short bursts as its use after a few minutes produces a dull numbness like discomfort in the head. Also I have been suffering from tinnitus for many years which I estimate coincided with the adoption of 4G networks. The usage of wifi close to me gives a discomfort at the beginning which will later progress to an unbearable sensation which gives the impression of the occurrence of nerve degradation. There was a study done which I would agree with from my experience, with the link as follows: https://icbe-emf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/ICBE-EMF-Child-Health-Cell-Phone-Cell-Tower-EMF-Position-Statement-PDF-982026-1.pdf

Today we know that physiological behaviour is far more nuanced than was realized when the radiation standards were created in the 90s. There are several avenues of causation possible beyond just that resulting from DNA's heating of the human tissue. This can include damage directly from the radiation that impact the electromagnetic interactions of enzymes and/or nucleotides with their substrates without heat being involved, not to mention the possibility of radiation creating stress inflammatory cytokines without heat being the causative etiology. Ample evidence of this possibility is present in tissue culture and animal models. Moreover, the chronic exposure to the radiation over time has not even begun to be evaluated (cell phones held against the heart or brain, cell towers, etc.) The standards from the 90s are absurdly outdated when you consider the mass exposure of ever larger amounts of radiation that your constituents are being exposed to. Studies are needed but their results wouldn't be known for years. First do no harm.

I want to write a coherent comment here. But the truth is - I am far too angry with the FCC to do it. And far to sick and tired of this whole situation and thoroughly annoyed by your requirement to cite a scientific study to be taken seriously. You mean - like the study that shows how 5g de-oxigenates the air in order to operate? And reactive molds and so-forth, then thrive in the environment. Leading to mold infections. Just one lousy effect - scientifically shown - yet study gets revoked in 2020? Why am I responsible for making the FCC actually read science? I've had to leave my city of choice for a few reasons, largely related to over-developed, unchecked wireless antennna constructions and poorly monitored smart meters, all contributed to ridiculous levels of dirty electricity. Plus the mulitple cellphones always on, and wireless routers, always creating high ambient radiation levels in space after space. I've luckily been able to work from home, but after tripping on a sidewalk, blocked up by some joker zigging all over the place, talking loudly on a cellphone - I ended up losing my job due to those injuries. But I was also half asleep that day - like every day - thanks to the insomnia that comes with having an environment of high EMF and RF forced into my home by celltowers, city cameras, and the neighbors' wireless. AND a the whole building's bank of smart meters under my bedroom - which I did stop using - and moved to the living room to sleep - due to waking with injuries. One should not be getting injured while simply sleeping. But shifting rooms did nothing to stop the discordant line noise from untested, rushed to market, cellular and electrical products. Or the injuries for that matter, which I will not bore you with in detail. I will say this one part again - not to mention the horrific electrical line noise that comes off the lines from the dirty electric, pumped due to the meters, etc. Which is also the case where I had to move to - apparently the grid is now so trashed - there is no where 'clean' to live. My patience is done. Your agency is paid off. My life has been irrevokably changed and lots of time is gone that I will never get back. But the FCC can get off their duffs now - and force the wide-scale environmental impact studies that should have been done in the first place. Not to mention - there are physical areas of my old city that have crazy high ambient radiation levels. These towers creating this issue - they need to go. The city cameras? All need their power setting checked. Banks of smart meters? Need to go. We deserve a safe car or space on public transit, buses and planes as well. I could keep going - but why are we called on to do your jobs ???? Well, I am available for hire - I could help you get your act together. Help you structure some studies. Because right now - it's just Shame on this agency.

I have been severely affected by cell tower radiation, smart meter RF radiation and line noise (voltage transients and harmonics from switched mode power supplies), cell phone radiation, LED lights, and essentially anything that emits a PULSED EMF. Cell tower installed 1000 ft from my home. I didn't know it because it was hidden by trees. But suddenly, I wasn't sleeping so well. A year later, I discovered the cell tower but made no association between my poorer sleep and the tower. Yet when I'd visit my parents, who lived where, at the time, there was essentially no cell reception, I slept well again. In 2012, I finally realized that the tower was the likely cause of my poorer sleep. The other troubling thing was, the year the cell tower was installed, the number of insects dropped by about 1/3. All insects, not just some types. I wondered about it, but thought it might be some sort of cyclical or climatic thing. But the populations never recovered. Twelve years later, smart meters were installed. The next year, the insect population was reduced to 1/3 of what it had been pre-cell-tower. The insects never recovered. Four years later, there were hardly even any beetles. They seem to have been the one bug that was more resilient or unaffected than the others. Then, at my parents' home, where I'd always slept really well, I had near-total insomnia. I tossed and turned all night. I didn't know why. My only speculation was that it must be emotional (don't we all go to that when something is unexplained?), though I'd no idea what that might be. Year after year after year, I could not sleep and would go home completely worn out. Then I learned that a PLC meter had been installed on their home in January of the year I became unable to sleep. We installed a whole-house dirty electricity filter and I had no more problems. The smart meters were installed in my neighborhood in 2012. That completely changed my life. This wasn't the poor sleep from the cell tower. This was all-encompassing: terrible, unrestful sleep; transient memory loss; severe fatigue; heart palpitations. There's so much more I could recount, but this gives you a glimpse into what happens to a not unsignificant proportion of the population.

My comment is in response to the Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding both as a patient and a healthcare professional, who has been concerned about this issue for many years, and has read the scientific literature. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379738087_Investigation_of_the_Adverse_Health_Effects_of_Cell_Phone_Radiation_and_Propose_Solutions_to_Minimize_Them_A_Systematic_Review I developed hypersensitivity to electromagnetic radiation when I had another serious illness, and the effects of the wireless radiation made my overall symptoms worse. Those symptoms included brain fog, insomnia, anxiety and tinnitus. I removed all cordless phones from my home, and use wired phones and computers to help reduce the symptoms. My cell phone is turned off or on airplane mode most of the time to reduce my exposure. Although I can reduce exposure in my home, I need the government to reduce the exposure in the community. Our government is responsible for making sure the exposure to electromagnetic radiation is safe. Thus far, it has not been proven safe, and the exposures allowed in our country are magnitudes higher than that allowed in the EU. Please examine both the scientific evidence and people’s experiences regarding the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by the appropriate federal agencies with expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health. I urge HHS to identify gaps in current research, giving particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations. We need to establish appropriate federal research priorities and laws regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for considering these concerns. Kim Weeber, DPM, LAc

Please consider people, children and animals who are sensitive to these radio frequencies. I am highly EMF sensitive, and we understand these frequencies are causing problems. Time to make some informed changes, respecting light of the recent research on children’s brains and these devices we use every day. Please protect us from the harms and the honeybees too, who don’t t like to live near Smart Meters!

I am writing regarding the FCC’s response to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ remand concerning its decades-old radiofrequency (RF) radiation exposure guidelines. The Court directed the FCC to provide a reasoned explanation for its determination that its guidelines adequately protect humans against harmful effects of RF radiation unrelated to cancer. Specifically, the court required the FCC to address the impacts of RF radiation on children, the health implications of long-term exposure, the ubiquity of wireless devices and technological developments, impacts on the environment, and the adequacy of the FCC’s testing procedures for cell phones and other portable devices. There is published, peer-reviewed data which shows clear evidence of harm from RF radiation that the FCC should be sure to consider carefully and diligently. BioInitiative 2012 has amalgamated many studies, although there are far more available. https://bioinitiative.org In particular, these studies are valuable: https://bioinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/sec09_2012_Evidence_Effects_Neurology_behavior.pdf https://bioinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/sec08_2007_Evidence_%20Effects_%20Immune_System.pdf https://bioinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/sec07_2007_Evidence_for_Stress_Response.pdf I have personal experience in this area. Prolonged exposure to RF radiation can give me headache, brain fog, heart palpitations, sweating, and a feeling of internal heat. The microwave sources that cause these symptoms include cell towers, cell phones, wifi routers, and cordless phones.